enable visual styles and toolbars

[Brian Henry]

here's something odd, maybe someone can explain it, when i turn on
application.ena blevisualstyles at application start before i do my
application.run (context) command in the sub main, when the app context runs
and I get my main form, the toolbar is now missing all its icons (24x24) the
buttons are there just the icons are gone, also pretty much all image list
icons are not displaying. as soon as i turn the enable visual styles off,
they show up again, whats goning on with this? I don't really need visual
styles on, but I just thought that was a wierd behaviour

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Brian,
Its a known bug, the workaround is to call DoEvents between Enable Visual
Styles & Run.

Something like

Application.Ena bleVisualStyles ()
Application.DoE vents()
Application.Run (context)

Alternatively you can use a manifest file as in VB.NET 2002, however I do
not have a link for that handy.

Hope this helps
Jay

"Brian Henry" <br******@adelp hia.net> wrote in message
news:O%******** *******@tk2msft ngp13.phx.gbl.. .

here's something odd, maybe someone can explain it, when i turn on
application.ena blevisualstyles at application start before i do my
application.run (context) command in the sub main, when the app context runs and I get my main form, the toolbar is now missing all its icons (24x24) the buttons are there just the icons are gone, also pretty much all image list
icons are not displaying. as soon as i turn the enable visual styles off,
they show up again, whats goning on with this? I don't really need visual
styles on, but I just thought that was a wierd behaviour

[Brian Henry]

didn't help doing a doevents call.. everything is still blank images
"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <Ja************ @msn.com> wrote in message
news:Oy******** *****@tk2msftng p13.phx.gbl...

Brian,
Its a known bug, the workaround is to call DoEvents between Enable Visual
Styles & Run.

Something like

Application.Ena bleVisualStyles ()
Application.DoE vents()
Application.Run (context)

Alternatively you can use a manifest file as in VB.NET 2002, however I do
not have a link for that handy.

Hope this helps
Jay

"Brian Henry" <br******@adelp hia.net> wrote in message
news:O%******** *******@tk2msft ngp13.phx.gbl.. .

here's something odd, maybe someone can explain it, when i turn on
application.ena blevisualstyles at application start before i do my
application.run (context) command in the sub main, when the app context

runs

and I get my main form, the toolbar is now missing all its icons (24x24)

the

buttons are there just the icons are gone, also pretty much all image list icons are not displaying. as soon as i turn the enable visual styles off, they show up again, whats goning on with this? I don't really need visual styles on, but I just thought that was a wierd behaviour

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Brian Henry" <brianiup[nospam]@adelphia.net> scripsit:

didn't help doing a doevents call.. everything is still blank images

Mhm... That should work. Did you try adding a manifest and remove the
call to 'EnableVisualSt yles'?

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>